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Dust-driven Dynamos in Accretion Disks
P. M. Bellan
Magnetically driven astrophysical jets are related to accretion and involve toroidal magnetic field pressure inflating poloidal magnetic field flux surfaces. Examination of particl…
Enrichment of the dust-to-gas mass ratio in Bondi/Jeans accretion/cloud systems due to unequal changes in dust and gas incoming velocities
P. M. Bellan
The ratio of the Bondi and Jeans lengths is used to develop a cloud-accretion model that describes both an inner Bondi-type regime where gas pressure is balanced by the gravity of…
On the jets, kinks, and spheromaks formed by a planar magnetized coaxial gun
S. C. Hsu, P. M. Bellan
Measurements of the various plasma configurations produced by a planar magnetized coaxial gun provide insight into the magnetic topology evolution resulting from magnetic helicity…
Experimental Identification of the Kink Instability as a Poloidal Flux Amplification Mechanism for Coaxial Gun Spheromak Formation
S. C. Hsu, P. M. Bellan
The magnetohydrodynamic kink instability is observed and identified experimentally as a poloidal flux amplification mechanism for coaxial gun spheromak formation. Plasmas in this e…
A Laboratory Plasma Experiment for Studying Magnetic Dynamics of Accretion Discs and Jets
S. C. Hsu, P. M. Bellan
This work describes a laboratory plasma experiment and initial results which should give insight into the magnetic dynamics of accretion discs and jets. A high-speed multiple-frame…